Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League Explained
The Metropolitan Yeshiva High School Athletic League (MYHSAL), or Yeshiva League, is a high school athletic league consisting of 36 Modern/Centrist Orthodox and two pluralist Yeshivas in the New York Metropolitan Area. It includes the sports of basketball, floor hockey, volleyball, soccer, baseball, tennis, and softball. The league, and particularly its sport of floor hockey, was described by the New York Times in a 2017 piece.[1] Jared Kushner played hockey in the league while attending the Frisch School.
Member schools
The MYHSAL member schools are:
!School!Location!Established| Bruriah High School for Girls (Bruriah) | Elizabeth, New Jersey | 1963 |
| Yeshiva University High School for Girls–Central (central) | Holliswood, New York | 1948 |
| Yeshiva Darchei Torah | Far Rockaway, Queens | 1973 |
| Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School (DRS) | Woodmere, New York | 1997 |
| Yeshivah of Flatbush | Midwood, Brooklyn | 1927 |
| Frisch School (Frisch) | Paramus, New Jersey | 1972 |
| Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) | Lawrence, Nassau County, New York | 1978 |
| Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) | Uniondale, New York | 1953 |
| Heichal HaTorah | Teaneck, New Jersey | 2012 |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel School (Heschel) | Upper West Side, Manhattan | 2001 |
| Hillel Yeshiva | Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey | 1950 |
| Ilan High School | Asbury Park, New Jersey | unknown |
| Jewish Educational Center (JEC) | Elizabeth, New Jersey | 1940 |
| Yeshiva Keter Torah | Eatontown, New Jersey | unknown |
| Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy (Kushner) | Livingston, New Jersey | 1942 |
| Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School (Ma'ayanot) | Teaneck, New Jersey | 1996 |
| Yeshivat Magen Abraham | Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn | unknown |
| Magen David Yeshivah High School (Magen David) | Brooklyn, New York | 1946 |
| Ma'or Yeshiva High School (Maor) | Long Branch, New Jersey | unknown |
| Mesivta Ateres Yaakov (MAY) | Lawrence, New York | 1987 |
| Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (MTA) | Washington Heights, Manhattan | 1916 |
| Naaleh High School for Girls (Naaleh) | Fair Lawn, New Jersey | unknown |
| Mesivta Netzach HaTorah (Netzach) | Woodmere, New York | unknown |
| North Shore Hebrew Academy | Great Neck, New York | 1954 |
| Ohr Yisroel | Tenafly, New Jersey | unknown |
| Ramaz School | Upper East Side | 1937 |
| Rambam Mesivta | Lawrence, Nassau County, New York | 1991 |
| SAR High School | Riverdale, Bronx | 2003 |
| Yeshivat Shaare Torah (Shaare) | Brooklyn | 1982 |
| Shulamith School for Girls | Woodmere, New York | 1930 |
| Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls (SKA) | Hewlett Bay Park, New York | 1992 |
| Schechter School of Long Island (SSLI) | Williston Park, New York | unknown |
| Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC) | Teaneck, New Jersey | 1982 |
| Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel of Waterbury (Waterbury) | Waterbury, Connecticut | unknown |
| Westchester Hebrew High School (WHHS) | Mamaroneck, New York | unknown |
| Yeshivat Darche Eres (YDE Boys) | Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn | unknown |
| Yeshivat Darche Eres (YDE Girls) | Gravesend, Brooklyn | unknown |
| Yeshiva Zichron Paltiel | Staten Island | unknown | |
Notes and References
- News: A ‘World Unto Itself’ in New York Area Yeshivas: Floor Hockey. Kilgannon. Corey. 2017. The New York Times. 2018-02-28. en-US. 0362-4331.
